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UNTTED STATES Patented October 18, 1904.

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SPECIFICATI' forming part of Letters Patent No. 772,867, dated October 18, 1904.

i I Application filed January 14, 1904. Serial No. 189,020.r A (No model.) l

To all whom, it may concern:

Beit known that I, THEODORE H. BROWN, a subject of the King of Great Britain, residing at Viroqua, in the county of Vernon and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Brooms, of which the following is a specification.

, My invention relates to brooms, and'more particularly to means for retaining the broomcorn in a compact brush and binding the same to the broom-handle and for providing a yielding brace for said brush.

With this and other objects in view my invention comprises the arrangement and combination of component parts and the details of construction to be hereinafter described, and particularly pointed out inthe claims.

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate a preferred embodiment of my invention, Figure 1 shows the same in sectional elevation. Fig. 2 is a detail view, and Fig. 3 is a sideelevation. 4

As premised, my inventionaims'to provide a broom, such as is commonly used for domestic purposes, which may be manufactured at' a low cost and will be highlyeiiicient in use and of pleasing general appearance. VIt includes, essentially, a handle a, and broombrush I). One end of the former is extended a short distance into the body of the brush andis provided with 'a transverse opening c. Extending through the opening and around the upper part of the major portion of the broom-corn forming the complete brush is a binding-wire ol, which serves to 4,firmly secure said brush to the handle. This wire is covered in the completed brush by a surface or outer layer of material, having the upper ends of the broom-corn vcomprising the same gathered about the handle and bound'thereto.

Fitting over these ends is a rubber cup g,

tion of the surface-layer of material is held to the main body by ordinary transverselydisposed rows of stitching rl.

to the broom-handle and having a part disposed in the line of the greatest width of the broom-body. This frame is indicated in the accompanying drawings by the letter m, and in the illustrated exemplilication of this part it comprises a substantially triangular frame bent from a single piece of resilient wire having its ends secured in thebroom-handle. As shown, the base a of the triangle extends in the direction of the greatest width of the broom-body and is vembedded centrally therein at about the point ofthe rows of stitching t'. The sides of the angular frame extend toward the end of the broom-handle and terminate in portions that run parallel therewith on opposite sides thereof, having angular extremitiessecured in the latter.

The construction and effect of my invention will be readily understood upon reference to the foregoing description and accompanying drawings, and it will be vappreciated that the parts and combinations recited may be varied within a wide range without departing from the spirit and scope thereof.

Having thus described my invention, what is claimed as new, and desired to be secured by Letters Patent, is-

i '1.a In a broom, the combination with a handle having a slotted end, of a head or brush in dle having a slotted end, of a head or brush in which said slotted end is embedded, and a brace formed of a single wire and comprising a substantially triangular body portion having a tapered end located at the lower end of the handle. said body being inclosed within the head or brush below the handle, and a shank portion forming an integral part of the body and comprising wires located longitudinally in the slot-of the handle.

3. In a broom, the Combination with a hanverscly through the handle between thc spaced dle having a slotted lower end, of a head or shank elements. 10 brush inclosing the slotted end, a flaring' brace ,ln testimony whereof l allix my Signature in embedded in the head or brush and having an presence ol two witnesses. 5 upstanding shank portion comprising spaced THICODORE Il. BROWN.

elements located longitudinally in the slot in fitnessesr the handle, and a binding device inclosing a l (l. J. Snrln,

portion of the brush or head and 'passing transl l. S. GRIFFIN. 

